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Tragedy and resolve
THE TRAGIC TURN to the hostage crisis, which ended with the recovery of the body of the former Karnataka Minister, H. Nagappa, from the forests in Karnataka, should mark the beginning of a new resolve to catch his elusive abductor. It would be an ...
Politics of Terror
WHEN ASHOK SINGHAL described Godhra and the riots that followed as an `experiment', which in his opinion had been a grand success and needed to be replicated elsewhere, most people were deeply disturbed; even though they thought he meant only ...


Leader Page Articles
Fashioning a federal Sri Lanka
By V.S. Sambandan

The LTTE's present offer to talk about a federal option is a manifestation of its need to consolidate its appearance of a state.
Sovereignty of federations - II
By Pran Chopra

It is of critical importance for the protection of the sovereignty of a federation... that its constitutional structures are strong, clear and based upon a democratic consensus


News Analysis
Getting rid of the 'black sheep' and maintaining judicial independence
By Fali S. Nariman

Would a judicial body in India have power to take appropriate action short of removal from office of a High Court Judge? Yes, if there was a law in place to that effect. The world's oldest democracy has now shown the way. In the United States, ...
Hunger in Palestine
By Peter Hansen

The world has grown used to the idea that hunger manifests itself only in the hollow cheeks and distended stomachs of an African famine. But today in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, an insidious hunger has the Palestinian people in its grip. ...
DEC. 13 ATTACK - II
Loose links in prosecution's chain
By Anjali Mody

NEW DELHI, DEC. 9. Four people who stood the trial for conspiring in the attack on Parliament on December 13, 2001, were, according to the prosecution, linked to a chain of complicity. The prosecution, in order to establish this chain of ...
A folk play with a disturbing message
By Gautaman Bhaskaran

CHENNAI, DEC. 9. Often television, cinema and theatre make a greater impact on the eye and the mind than paragraphs of prose or stanzas of poetry. Obviously so. For, the visual medium — be it the screen or the stage — has the power ...


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